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Connection Handover 1.2 Released

NFC Forum has released an update to the Connection Handover Technical Specification. Download it now (you must accept the click-through license first).

Congratulations to NEXPERTS and Universidad Pontificiade Salamanca, Club de Innovacion!

The winner of the NFC Forum Global Competition 2010 were announced at the NFC Forum Member Meeting in Karlshamn, Sweden.

The first place winner in the Commercial Track, "The Best NFC Service of the Year 2010," is NEXPERTS (Austria) for Touch & Pay,which makes self-service shopping as easy as possible. The customer's NFC-enabled phone provides access to the store, a virtual shopping basket, and the payment terminal. The principle of Touch & Pay can be extended to rural areas or countries without a POS payment infrastructure.

The first-place winner in the Research Track, "The Most Innovative NFC Research Project of the Year 2010," is Universidad Pontificiade Salamanca, Club de Innovacion (Spain) for PharmaFabula: NFC Mobile Technology and RFID for Identification of Medicines for the Blind. Using an NFC-enabled mobile device, PharmaFabula provides object identification for the blind. It reports medical information from prescriptions, leaflets, and other useful data in audio format. It can also provide personal information, like dosage and treatment duration. ONCE, the Spanish organization of blind people, tested PharmaFabula and were very satisfied with the results.

The second-place winner in the Commercial Track is ITN International, Inc. (USA) for BCARD Reader - NFC Ecosystem for Events and Tradeshows. Third place goes to NTT DOCOMO (Japan) for Wellness Support - NFC Dynamic Tags Enable New Style Data Communication. With Wellness Support, an NFC Dynamic Tag is embedded into personal healthcare devices, enabling convenient and instant data exchange.

In the Research Track, Artesis University College Antwerp (Belgium) was awarded second place for NFC Learning Environment, which lets teachers tag objects that students then investigate and explore. The third-place prize goes to Lancaster University (UK) for MyState: Allowing Users to Describe Themselves and Their Environment with NFC and Facebook, which allows users to create interactive environments by placing NFC tags on objects to create individual, personalized applications.

Get more information about the winners.

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